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Domain parking experiment
Last year I purchased some domain names referring to 3D printing and laser cutting services. 3D printers are big news and laser cutters are great tools so I thought there was an opportunity to build community sites that might have some revenue potential. As usual I did not have the time to progress these ideas.…
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Who cleans the toilets at Valve Corporation?
There is recently been some press coverage of Valve Corporation which famously has no bosses. As a management consultant I spent most of my working days putting in hierarchal management systems to support a company’s growth. Therefore I am very interested in Valve’s management model. Valve is a very successful company, therefore the question naturally…
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Tomcat 7 on Windows is not UTF-8 by default
When building web applications one typically uses UTF-8 encoding thoughout to ensure that you can send and receive text in multi-byte languages such as Russian, and Chinese. The Window 7 version of Tomcat is (insanely) not UTF-8 by default. This is because it picks up the default encoding from your installation of Java which is…
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Keyapt SMS: Type on your PC, send from your phone
Chris and I have just released the second version of Keyapt SMS for Android phones. It lets you see your contacts and send and receive SMS in your web browser. The SMS are actually sent from your phone. This version is much faster and very slick. You don’t even have to touch your phone. We…
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SCRUM, PRINCE2 and ElephantPM
I have received several questions recently about how agile project management methodologies such as SCRUM can be used with deliverable-centric methodologies such as PRINCE2 or ElephantPM. ElephantPM is similar to PRINCE2 but is tailored for small and medium size enterprises (SMEs). Whereas ElephantPM is a generic methodology that can be used for almost any project,…
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Skype stops Tomcat 7 working on port 80
I recently reinstalled my Rialo application server on a Windows 7 Home Premium PC. I changed the port in server.xml from 8080 to 80 but Tomcat no longer would serve pages. After about an hour I found a forum post that blamed Skype. Sure enough I stopped Skype and Tomcat now runs. c:\ netstat -abn…
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Amazon AWS adds another high availability solution – DNS Failover
In the past each “9” on your availability cost about 10x more. So for example, 99.99% availability cost 10x more than 99.9% availability. Amazon is making inroads into these costs. Amazon Elastic Beanstalk already offers inexpensive load balancing that will direct users to working nodes and even start additional nodes when demand increases. That’s great…
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ant install, deploy does not work after upgrading from Tomcat 6 to Tomcat 7
There are several issues the manager URL has changed the default tomcat-users does not give the necessary permissions ant needs access to additional jars the task syntax is less forgiving (to me anyway) All this and more in this great post. http://paulgrenyer.blogspot.co.at/2011/11/catalina-ant-for-tomcat-7.html
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How to create a union of n tables in Excel
In response to my post showing how to union two tables in Excel a reader writes, I have seen your blog post about combining two tables, which I have working for me, however I would like to combine an ever increasing number of tables …, into a common “list”. How to do it without ending…
Dr James Bayley
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Dr James Bayley 